Steam Deck
Did the Lenovo Legion go just kill the steam deck?
Yeah, this thing is a beast. 97% DCI-P3 color gamut, 144hz and a whopping QHD + resolution... :O Detachable sides, a huge screen and more importantly: Magnetic Hall sticks.

It's also worth to note that it isn't locked down behind a restrictive OS (such as bottleneckOS a.k.a. steamOS).

Thank you Valve for opening the desktop handheld market, and thank you Lenovo for developing a far better product.
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Автор сообщения: Mr.Gold
I play my deck mostly on the go not docked. That is the advantage of these handhelds. Deck especially with the seamless sleep/resume function. I can press the power button and put it to sleep and next day just press power button again and I get back to exactly where I was with no breaks or problems. It just works (tm).
Same. I bring my Deck to work as I sometimes have plenty of down-time to enjoy it. When I need to stop playing though, I need to stop playing now, and the ability to just hit power, set it down, and get to work is absolutely amazing.

I have three computers that I use on a daily basis though. My Steam Deck of course has it's place as the best way to play PC games on a handheld. My laptop is built for productivity and not gaming, and it's a nice, portable way for me to get work done on the go that the Deck just doesn't do as well. My desktop of course is where I turn everything up to ultra with no compromises and enjoy the most immersive experience PC gaming has to offer, at the cost of portability of course.
Автор сообщения: The Team Fortress 64
Автор сообщения: Shadow
Honestly, none of these handhelds are "there" yet. Let me know when they can take a 850 watt power supply and somehow shrink it down into a small handheld battery, with a 3080. Maybe then I'll consider it. I give it another 5-10-20 years until they truly master it.

Lol?!? In 10 years when there's a 3080 in handhelds there'll be a 8090 in desktops. Portable handheld devices will always only have a fraction of the power of large machines that are always drawing power from a wall for frankly tremendously obvious reasons

Автор сообщения: Shadow
The SteamDeck is on par or slightly above the Switch.

That's so laughably false it's not even funny

Автор сообщения: Shadow
With Rog Ally and Legion Go going at each other, SteamDeck is barely a contender.

Except battery life and features matter. In particular, the Steam Deck's processor was optimized to scale very well with low wattage, which the Go, Ally etc. don't do at all

Автор сообщения: Shadow
No point in buying any of them just yet.

You do you but your perception and "knowledge" is just way off

Did I say it would be a 3080 in 10 years? No. I said in 10 years they would be better and to let me know when these handhelds can actually have something like that inside them.

It's not laughably false at all. The Switch is limited by its hardware and system. It's basically only good for Nintendo games. Just how the SteamOS only plays a handful of selected games. As well as limiting software and hardware compared to other products on the market. The difference is the deck can hit close to 60 fps while the Switch is basically locked at 30 fps.

That's the only thing the Deck has going for it, is battery life at lower wattage. So what? I rather run at a higher wattage than a lower one. The deck can't push the frames the other's can. According to benchmarks, the Legion Go is the only one that struggles a little at a lower wattage. The Ally does just fine. Legion Go has way more features than the Deck by far. I know it's hard to hear about your favourite company and its mediocre product.

My knowledge and perception isn't off. Benchmarks prove this. The deck sucks, unless it comes to a lower wattage usage. But so what? Even then, it barely pushes to 60 fps and it still uses a crap operating system that lacks compatibility and functionality. A system that can't even run your entire library while you wait for Valve to actually get off their butts and make certain games verified. Linux is a terrible operating system. Period.

It goes like this:

Switch.
Deck.
ROG Ally.
Legion Go.
Отредактировано Shadow; 28 апр. 2024 г. в 8:47
Автор сообщения: Shadow
*snip*

Confidently incorrect is the worst kind of incorrect.
Автор сообщения: Shadow
My knowledge and perception isn't off

Yes it is.
You are wrong. You miss the point repeatedly and you don't know what you are talking about.

Power isn't everything in fact, power has mever been the decisive factor on how good or widely adopted a device is. The deck does things that the Lenovo or Asus don't. And put them all at 15w and the deck has the same performance. In some games a little bit better, in others a little bit worse. Your tier list makes no sense even when talking performance except if you consider the legion go and the ally to be plugged in all the time.

Linux, is the best operating system. If performance is what matters to you Linux is better than Windows. In a recent test windows came out worse than 3 Linux distros performance wise.

There are a handful of games that do not run on the deck. Some due to anticheat, others due to poor optimization. There are over 14,000 games that run on the deck as I am writting and that is just the ones people test and play. Also, the verification process is not what you think it is. Firstly, developers do the leg work to get a game verified and secondly, even if a game is not verified it still runs. I can still play Horizon Forbidden West at 30 fps on my deck despite being unsupported.

Also your last list is bogus. I put the switch above the Ally or the Go. At least with a Switch OLED I can play ToTK for 5h straight if I want to. Good luck pulling that off on an Ally or a Legion Go.
Автор сообщения: Mr.Gold
Автор сообщения: Shadow
My knowledge and perception isn't off

Yes it is.
You are wrong. You miss the point repeatedly and you don't know what you are talking about.

Power isn't everything in fact, power has mever been the decisive factor on how good or widely adopted a device is. The deck does things that the Lenovo or Asus don't. And put them all at 15w and the deck has the same performance. In some games a little bit better, in others a little bit worse. Your tier list makes no sense even when talking performance except if you consider the legion go and the ally to be plugged in all the time.

Linux, is the best operating system. If performance is what matters to you Linux is better than Windows. In a recent test windows came out worse than 3 Linux distros performance wise.

There are a handful of games that do not run on the deck. Some due to anticheat, others due to poor optimization. There are over 14,000 games that run on the deck as I am writting and that is just the ones people test and play. Also, the verification process is not what you think it is. Firstly, developers do the leg work to get a game verified and secondly, even if a game is not verified it still runs. I can still play Horizon Forbidden West at 30 fps on my deck despite being unsupported.

Also your last list is bogus. I put the switch above the Ally or the Go. At least with a Switch OLED I can play ToTK for 5h straight if I want to. Good luck pulling that off on an Ally or a Legion Go.
I see the 15W more of a bottleneck than a feature. And just because the ally or the go support a higher TDP doesn't mean it's always running at that power.

The "incredibly great optimized steam deck 15W hardware" comes with a high price. You are ALWAYS playing with a low resolution, although there are thousands of games which would even run on the weak steam deck hardware in FHD+ or maybe even higher. But you're always bottlenecked with that terribly low res. Point and click games, platformers, emulation all look great in 2k, or even just FHD.

Have fun counting pixels on the steam deck!
Автор сообщения: Shadow
I know it's hard to hear about your favourite company and its mediocre product.

No, it's hard to read something so laughably yet confidently wrong that once again the question arises whether I'm just falling for an elaborate trolling attempt. All of this is just pure nonsense

Also for the record, I own both a Legion Go and Steam Deck. I like all open platforms and I have no horse in this race at all but the reality of the situation is that the Steam Deck is simply much better as a handheld, doing handheld things, which includes not being plugged into an outlet for long periods of time
Автор сообщения: ?legit
I see the 15W more of a bottleneck than a feature. And just because the ally or the go support a higher TDP doesn't mean it's always running at that power.

The "incredibly great optimized steam deck 15W hardware" comes with a high price. You are ALWAYS playing with a low resolution, although there are thousands of games which would even run on the weak steam deck hardware in FHD+ or maybe even higher. But you're always bottlenecked with that terribly low res. Point and click games, platformers, emulation all look great in 2k, or even just FHD.

Have fun counting pixels on the steam deck!
I play MHW upscalled to 900p on the Steam Deck. If you don't, sounds like a lack of technical knowledge issue.

And sure the screen is only 800p but the pixel density is bigger than a 24 inch 1440p display and about 100 pixels shy of a retina display. So where exactly are you counting pixels? Unless you have a 24 inch 4k display all pixels are going to be bigger. In fact, pixels in those games you mentioned will be bigger on a 2k display than on the SD screen. So what are you on about?
Автор сообщения: invision2212
Автор сообщения: Shadow
Even when plugged in, depending on the title, they can barely get 60 fps on low in most titles.

You obviously never used a rog ally or a Lenovo legion go.

I was playing resident evil 8 last night and getting a minimum of 100 fps on all high settings. The deck can’t even do 60fps on that game.

Kena bridge of spirits locked 60
Deck barely gets 35 fps

Final fantasy crisis core 80-90 fps
Deck 30-35

Soulstice 50-60 fps
Deck Unplayable under 30fps at all times

The medium 30 fps
The deck 11 fps

Those are just the games on my desktop

I really enjoyed the deck but it’s performance is really lacking and will only get worse

Yeah at 35W or turbo LOL.

Try at 15W and see the difference.
Sure the performance is better if you turbo the rog but you'll get an horrible battery life,which completely kill the purpose of being an handheld.
Автор сообщения: ?legit
I see the 15W more of a bottleneck than a feature. And just because the ally or the go support a higher TDP doesn't mean it's always running at that power.

The "incredibly great optimized steam deck 15W hardware" comes with a high price. You are ALWAYS playing with a low resolution, although there are thousands of games which would even run on the weak steam deck hardware in FHD+ or maybe even higher. But you're always bottlenecked with that terribly low res. Point and click games, platformers, emulation all look great in 2k, or even just FHD.

Have fun counting pixels on the steam deck!

We coming back to this old conversation. Flawed is the default for handheld. If your device isn't flawed, then you screwed up because you made engineering compromised that reduces the total market share.

Designing a device that always runs at 15 watts means you only need circuits to maintain 15 watts. Game developers will not pull this giant disclaimer where the game only works well when docked.....

What is you idea of good enough. You keep talk around the issue where you do not have a good enough metric. You keep throwing up hypothetical without caring without realizing that nobody fits your idea.
Автор сообщения: Ꝙ Ghosthunter Ꝙ
Yeah at 35W or turbo LOL.

Try at 15W and see the difference.
Sure the performance is better if you turbo the rog but you'll get an horrible battery life,which completely kill the purpose of being an handheld.

Pretty much. I might buy an ally to replace my miniPC as it will be able to game a bit more and it comes out cheaper than 7840U devices when on sale. So yeah, I will get an ally to have it docked at all times and a steam deck on the go. Unless I procrastinate like usual and end up waiting for the SD2 which I will definitely buy.
Автор сообщения: Mr.Gold
Автор сообщения: Ꝙ Ghosthunter Ꝙ
Yeah at 35W or turbo LOL.

Try at 15W and see the difference.
Sure the performance is better if you turbo the rog but you'll get an horrible battery life,which completely kill the purpose of being an handheld.

Pretty much. I might buy an ally to replace my miniPC as it will be able to game a bit more and it comes out cheaper than 7840U devices when on sale. So yeah, I will get an ally to have it docked at all times and a steam deck on the go. Unless I procrastinate like usual and end up waiting for the SD2 which I will definitely buy.
If you want a linux device, or just don’t care about the OS, the upcoming Orange Pi Neo rocks a 7840u for a planned $500.
What's a Lenovo Legion go?
Автор сообщения: Mr.Gold
Автор сообщения: ?legit
I see the 15W more of a bottleneck than a feature. And just because the ally or the go support a higher TDP doesn't mean it's always running at that power.

The "incredibly great optimized steam deck 15W hardware" comes with a high price. You are ALWAYS playing with a low resolution, although there are thousands of games which would even run on the weak steam deck hardware in FHD+ or maybe even higher. But you're always bottlenecked with that terribly low res. Point and click games, platformers, emulation all look great in 2k, or even just FHD.

Have fun counting pixels on the steam deck!
I play MHW upscalled to 900p on the Steam Deck. If you don't, sounds like a lack of technical knowledge issue.

And sure the screen is only 800p but the pixel density is bigger than a 24 inch 1440p display and about 100 pixels shy of a retina display. So where exactly are you counting pixels? Unless you have a 24 inch 4k display all pixels are going to be bigger. In fact, pixels in those games you mentioned will be bigger on a 2k display than on the SD screen. So what are you on about?
The pixel density from the deck is bad. You can say it how you want, but 800p is laughable.
Автор сообщения: Ꝙ Ghosthunter Ꝙ
Автор сообщения: invision2212

You obviously never used a rog ally or a Lenovo legion go.

I was playing resident evil 8 last night and getting a minimum of 100 fps on all high settings. The deck can’t even do 60fps on that game.

Kena bridge of spirits locked 60
Deck barely gets 35 fps

Final fantasy crisis core 80-90 fps
Deck 30-35

Soulstice 50-60 fps
Deck Unplayable under 30fps at all times

The medium 30 fps
The deck 11 fps

Those are just the games on my desktop

I really enjoyed the deck but it’s performance is really lacking and will only get worse

Yeah at 35W or turbo LOL.

Try at 15W and see the difference.
Sure the performance is better if you turbo the rog but you'll get an horrible battery life,which completely kill the purpose of being an handheld.

Yup, but here’s the thing. I have the option to go up to 32w while you on the other hand will be stuck at 15w. Also the games perform better at 15w on the legion go vs the steam deck. I’ve already tested this on many games.

Then I can kick back on my bed, plug in my RX 7600xt and play either 144hz gaming at 800p or 60hz at 1440p which you can’t do either of those on the deck.
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